“Housing used to be about ‘them’ — like poverty or unemployment. But it has become so expensive in the Bay Area that housing now touches enough people to win elections.” The NYT visits Mountain View, CA, to see how the city is facing the housing crisis sweeping the Bay Area: Teslas in the Trailer Park.

+ “If they were anywhere else in Beijing, the five young women in cowboy hats and matching red, white, and blue costumes would look wildly out of place. But here at the city’s biggest international property fair — a frenetic gathering of brokers, developers and other real estate professionals all jockeying for the attention of Chinese buyers — the quintet of wannabe Texans fits right in.” From Bloomberg: The world’s biggest real estate binge is coming to a city near you.